Mosman Art Society members
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All members are invited to be listed here
Mosman Art Society members are invited to submit
four images of their work, a short resume and contact details to webmaster Ernie
Gerzabek by email
egerzabek1@optusnet.com.au
The preferred format for digital images is 72dpi
jpg with long side max 250 pixels and not exceeding 20 kb in size. The
resume text (max 950 words) and contact details should either be included in
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People who cannot get digital images can post
photographs of their artworks to webmaster for scanning and processing:
Ernie Gerzabek
7 Undula Place,
Belrose 2085
Please note: artists below are
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I've always enjoyed and loved art, it being one
of the subjects which I took in school, often scoring good credits and
distinctions. However, my chosen career as a PA secretary and another more
absorbing hobby of competitive ballroom dancing left me little time to devote to
art.
My interest in art was re-ignited while I was
cruising the Whitsundays for a year with my husband in July 2003. It was there
that I met Fae Lister, a well-known watercolour artist from Port Macquarie, who
gave me several helpful tips and suggested that I become a member of Art
Whitsundays. It was then that I started entering art exhibitions and even had a
sole exhibition of around 60 odd paintings in April 2004 at the Prosperpine
Museum. I also have had several commission jobs and sold around 20 paintings as
a result.
Upon my return to Sydney in July 2004, I attended
art classes on life drawing and oil painting at the Royal Art Society in North
Sydney. My watercolour entry "Coral at Eagle Cay" at the Art School Exhibition
in Oct/Nov'04 received a commended award.
I am also an exhibiting member of the Mosman Art
Society. My contact number is 0414 425 484.
my email
mvrunt@yahoo.com.au
Once upon a garden
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Point Quabba WA
Kookaburras in the forest
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Ernie is a contemporary landscape and abstract painter and
sculptor. He was born in Budapest, Hungary and came to Australia in 1958. He
started painting in 1970 while practising as a Chartered Architect. Following
his retirement in 1997 he started his full time art practice.
He has a very broad range of artistic interests: painting,
ceramics and sculpture, and thus cannot be pigeonholed into a single art form or
‘style’.
Ernie's main inspiration is Nature and the unique landscapes
of Australia: wilderness areas, wetlands, the unspoilt countryside, deserts, the
ocean and seashores. He is interested in using environmentally friendly
approaches and recently started using recycled materials creating bas-relief and
three dimensional sculptures.
Ernie tends to create playful, decorative and inspiring
artworks, which are both optimistic and spiritually uplifting.
He had more than 22 solo shows since 1999 -- in Sydney,
Melbourne and regional New South Wales galleries. He also participated in
countless group shows in municipal and commercial galleries and other venues.
He is an exhibiting member of Ku-ring-gai, Mosman, North Shore Art Societies and
The Sculptors Society.
Apart from Australia, his works can be found in private
collections all around the world, including USA, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand,
Great Britain and other European countries.phone +61 2 9975 5527
email egerzabek1@optusnet.com DOT au
websites
www.AbstractLandscapePaintings.com
www.Ernie-Gerzabek.com
Low rise - bas-relief wall sculpture |
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After the drought
Cheers!
Gone sailing |
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Bryan J H Besly B E (Qld)
Dip Fine Art (JAAS) FIE Aust CPEngE |
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Bryan was born in Brisbane in 1934 and graduated
in civil engineering from the University of Queensland in 1955. He
practiced as a professional engineer in Australia and overseas from 1956 to
1994. In 1966 he and his family moved to Melbourne and he has lived in
Sydney since 1993.
His training
in art includes:
Brisbane Polytechnical College – 1945-6 drawing
Caroline Barker – 1950-1952 design, drawing and painting
Jon Molvig – 1956-7 painting
Reshid Bey – 1969-1976 painting
Julian Ashton Art School – 1993 to 2005 composition, drawing and painting.
In 2001 he was awarded a Diploma of Fine Art
Overseas travel destinations include France,
Italy, United Kingdom , Vienna, Venice, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Nigeria,
South-east Asia, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Kenya, New Zealand, Fiji and Texas.
His work is in private collections in Australia,
New Zealand, England, USA, and Italy.
Bryan was President of the Mosman Art Society,
Sydney 1995 to 2005.
“Without obligation” commissions accepted. What
about a portrait, the outlook from your kitchen or the view from your home.
Tel 0299082106, 14/4 Lindsay St, Neutral Bay NSW 2089
Circular Quay to North Sydney |
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 Professor J H Lavery
Ricarda with hirdie girdie
Needleworker
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BIOGRAPHY
1949 Born Yorkshire (to Australia, at age 3)
1984, 1994 Tom Bass Sculpture School, Sydney
1986 Bachelor of Arts, Macquarie University
1995, 2001, 2002, 2004 Julian Ashton School of Art, Sydney
2000 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Tasmania
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1984 Tom Bass Sculpture School, Students'
Exhibition, Sydney, (Sculpture)
1994 Tom Bass Sculpture School, Students' Exhibition, Sydney, (Sculpture)
1995 Julian Ashton Art School, Students' Exhibition, Coach House Gallery, The
Rocks, Sydney (Etchings)
1996 University of Tasmania, Students' Exhibition, Centre for the Arts, Entrepot
Gallery, Hobart, (Body of etchings & lithographs)
1997 Salamanca Arts Centre, Sidespace Gallery, Hobart, (Lithography)
1998 Hobart Town Hall, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart
(Pinhole positives & negatives, sculpture & lithography)
1998 Despard Gallery, Hobart (Lithography & etchings)
1998 Salamanca Arts Centre, Long Gallery, Hobart(Lithography & etchings)
1999 Salamanca Arts Centre, Sidespace Gallery, Hobart (Lithography)
1999 University of Tasmania Members Annual Exhibition, Hobart (Pinhole
photography)
1999 University of Tasmania, Students' Exhibition, Centre for the Arts, Entrepot
Gallery, Hobart (Lithography & etchings)
1999 University of Tasmania, Students' Exhibition , Fine Arts Gallery, Hobart,
(Pinhole photography)
1999 New Space Gallery, Rozelle, Sydney, (Pinhole photography)
1999 University of Tasmania, Fine Arts Gallery, Hobart (Lithography & pinhole
photography)
1999 University of Tasmania, Fine Arts Gallery, Hobart (Pinhole photography)
1999 Potts Point, private house, (Etchings & lithographs)
2000 Salamanca Arts Centre, General Exhibition, Inka Gallery, Hobart
(Lithography)
2001 Salamanca Arts Centre, Long Gallery, Hobart, (Seascape pastels)
2001 Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, (Etchings)
2001 Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, (Seascape pastels)
2001 Julian Ashton Art School, Students' Exhibition, Coach House Gallery, The
Rocks, Sydney, (Oil tonal study)
2001 Royal Motor Yacht Club, 'The Boomerang Project', Artists' Fund-raising
Exhibition and Auction for African AIDS Orphans, Point Piper, (Sculpture)
2001 Mosman Art Gallery, 'Mosman Is Inspiration', Sydney, (Pastel seascape)
2002 Mosman Art Gallery, 'Artists of Mosman', Sydney, (Oil tonal study)
2002 The Julian Ashton Art School, Students Exhibition, Coach House Gallery,
The Rocks, Sydney (Oil tonal study)
2002-2003 Stills Gallery, Paddington, Sydney (Pinhole photographs)
2003 Mosman Art Gallery `Artists of Mosman (Oil painting)
2003 Balmoral Artists Colony Gallery, (Oil painting)
2003 Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman Spring Festival, (Graphite drawing)
2003 Bathurst Regional Gallery (oil painting, graphite drawing)
2004 Mosman Art Gallery (Oil painting)
2004 Sydney Royal Easter Show Arts Exhibition (Oil painting)
2005 Mosman Art Gallery, (Oil painting)
2005 Sydney Royal Easter Show Arts Exhibition (Oil painting)
2005 Mosman Arts Society 'Spring Exhibition', (Oil Painting)
2005 Royal Arts Society 'Art School Exhibition', (Oil Painting)
2006 Mosman Art Gallery, (Oil painting)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2003 Mosman Framing (Etchings, lithographs,
pastels, oils)
REPRESENTED BY
Inka Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart,
January 2000 to January 2002
(Pastels, lithographs, etchings)
BODIES OF PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK
Pinhole 1 a selection of pinholes
Landscape B/W & Sepia, SLR
Hand Coloured B/W, SLR & Pinhole
AWARDS
1997 University of Tasmania, Print of the week,
Centre for the Arts, Hobart
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PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Bob Carr (my etching was presented to him by
Paul Delprat, Principal, Julian Ashton Art School at opening of Students
Exhibition 1995)
Jorris Evereartes, (Sydney Sculptor)
Tom Samek (Tasmanian Sculptor, Painter and Printmaker)
Sydney Cove Redevelopment Authority
University of Tasmania, Centre for the Arts, Hobart
Raymond Arnold (Tasmanian Painter and Printmaker)
Barbie Kjar (Tasmanian Printmaker)
Milan Milojevic (Tasmanian Printmaker)
Mosman Local Studies Archive Collection, Mosman Library, Sydney
PHOTOGRAPHY AND LITHOGRAPHS IN PUBLICATIONS AND
BROCHURES
40 South and Beyond, B/W photograph of author
Douglas Lockhart, Books, December 1997, p72. (This photograph was also
published in several London newspapers)
Battery Point Bugle, Hobart, Tasmania, 1997, B/W photograph, lithograph
Marine and Safety Tasmania, Annual Report 1998-1999
front cover colour photograph of ship's mast
Hobart City Council, Architectural Department,
colour photographs of Aquatic Centre and nature reserve bridges in wilderness
area
REVIEWS
Hobart Mercury, Imago, May 15, 1999,
(Lithograph)
Hobart Mercury, The Lens from the other end: Photographers go on show, April
1999, (Pinhole photographs)
Sydney Morning Herald, Freed from perspective in the hills of Tuscany,
November 20, 2002 (Pinhole photographs)
Orange and Turquoise
Mount Wellington Dawn
Dirty feet
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My interest in painting began at a very early
age when my first teacher was the wonderful botanical artist, Wilfred
Blunt(brother of the infamous Anthony!). My next teacher was Leonard Rosoman,
who today, at 93, is the oldest living Royal Academician. My step-father,
the late Sir Robin Darwin, was principal of the Royal Coillege of Art and my
early life was spent surrounded by painters.
Then life intervened... and work.... and
other interests and I forgot everything I had learned! I enrolled in the
North Shore School of Art in 2003 and started painting again, going on, in
2005 to take classes at the Julian Ashton.
The journey continues... For the record I was
Convenor of the Mosman Art Prize for 5 years from 1993 to 1998. If anyone would
like to contact me, my email address is
mme@bigpond.net.au 
Side Street in Venice |
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Simpson's Gap at Alice Springs
Dove Lake, Tasmania
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Gerald was born in England 1938 and at the
age of 10 migrated to Sydney and was a lawyer for 40 years. Life as a
partner in a busy city law firm and family responsibilities left little time
for art work or painting.
He retired in 1998 but his painting career
began in earnest in 1995 when he went on a painting trip with a group of
artists in the Kakadu country and was encouraged by people such as Norma
Gibson, Robynne Palmer and Chick Gordon. The colours and contours of the
magical landscapes captivated his interest and he has been painting and
learning art ever since.
He did various courses at Julian Ashton Art
School and Kuring-gai Art Centre and has travelled with art groups into the
Kimberleys and many times to Alice Springs and Queensland. He did courses at
Bathurst Winter/Summer School, Mosman Evening College and has been tutored
by Robina Booth at Seaforth. His favoured mediums are acrylic or gouache.
When not travelling inland he enjoys the
places and sights of Mosman and Balmoral where he paints regularly. His
subjects include streetscape, still life and figures in addition to his
first love, which is landscape.
Since 2004, he has turned his attention to
printmaking, particularly using collagraph and other etching tecniques. He
has done courses with Bernhadine Mueller at Lane Cove and Susan Barran at
Warringah Printmaking Workshop and has already found ready acceptance in a
field which, for him, is new creative territory in addition to painting.
Gerald has been Vice President of the Mosman
Art Society for 6 years and in 2005 was elected President of that body.
He exhibits his work, painting,
collagraph prints and etchings regularly in Mosman Warringah and North
Sydney. His work has been sold locally and overseas.
Email
geraldc@alpha.net.au
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Josephine
Sofala Main Street
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John Grant studied at the National Art
School for three years and
had classes with John Coburn, John Passmore and William Salmon. He
then entered the world of advertising where he spent the next 35 years as an
art director, graphic artist and illustrator working with leading
advertising agencies and going freelance in the late 70’s after forming his
own company in 1971.
John returned to painting in the early
80’s after a long absence and opted to work in acrylics, although also
working in line and wash and pastels as well. His preferred subject is
landscapes but has recently been experimenting with still life subjects.
There is an intention to work more
prolifically and market his work in the future by entering exhibitions,
approaching certain galleries and encouraging commissions.
Aside from painting John, who works from
home, has run for the last eight years a ticket brokerage for people
travelling overseas and wish to see opera,ballet, concerts and theatre. His experience and
knowledge in the classical music world has given him opportunities to write
CD reviews in the 2MBS Fine Music magazine and Limelight and opera
performances for Opera Now in London and The Australian Newspaper.
www.wocis.com
Phone (02) 9960 1465
Email: john@wocis.com
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Captain Cook III
Florence window
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Artist, Barbara McBurnie of Mona Vale,
Sydney, brings her own style of excitement and vitality to her art.
Her love of the Australian outdoors is
reflected in the subjects she paints – beaches, landscapes, native plants,
birds, boating, abstracts and more recently oil paintings.
Barbara began her artistic career as a
potter, completing ceramic courses at Brookvale TAFE. The excitement of
under glaze colours painted on clay was the motivation to study watercolour
painting.
Today, Barbara paints in oils, acrylic
and water colour using the medium which best suits and reflects the mood of
her painting.
Barbara gives thanks to her teachers Val
Kemsley, Paul Warner, Frederick Bates, Molly Flaxman, Alvaro Castagnet,
Helen Goldsmith, David Taylor, Ross Paterson, Rex Newell, Ev Hales and
Joseph Zbukvic.
Barbara is a member of the following art
societies. – North Shore, Mosman, Artists & Craftsmen of Pittwater,
Pittwater Community Arts and Great Lakes, Forster.
Commissions are accepted and Barbara can
be contacted on 02 9997 3762 or email
kevinmcb@bigpond.com
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Gone fishing - watercolour
Spinnaker start - acrylic |
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Geoffrey Brandon ACIS, PNA, FAICD, FIFS, SA
Fin, FBAA, AFAIM is Vice President of our art society.
Essentially self taught, Geoffrey commenced
sketching and painting in 1989 as a result of reading a book on Michelangelo
Buonarroti and his sketches.
Major influences have been Vincent van Gogh,
and to a lesser extent Paul Gauguin, and Portraits of the Renaissance
period.
Geoffrey has been exhibited many times in the
Mosman Open Art Prize, the Artists of Mosman, the Mosman Art Society, and
the North Sydney Council Art Exhibition.
The Hawaiian Turtle |
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Self portrait "Karaoke Singer"
The Gecko
Football Game at North Sydney Oval
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Sydney Council Exhibition) |
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Sandra studied art a the Shilito Design
School in Sydney in the mid 1960's followed by further study at the East
Sydney Technical College. She later worked in Sydney in the
advertising industry. She started painting with watercolours about 20
years ago and has a passion for what watercolour can do and enjoys the
inspiration she gains from plein air painting.
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